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But Trump will just keep extending the date the wall construction will start until people quit asking, like Melania's press conference and his plan to prevent conflict of interest which ended up amounting to a token gesture.

He has a limited repertoire and the patterns are easy to spot. He makes an unsupported claim, "millions of illegal voters". His team claims Trump has seen the evidence. (Hint, check Bill O'Reilly and Infowars for the source of his claims.) Then in an interview someone finally pins him down asking for the evidence. Trump then switches to, "Well we are going to find out."

Now the voter fraud claim has the standard split GOP response, some stay quiet, have very little to say, generally respond with, "I haven't seen that evidence," or, "You'll have to ask him about that." Paul Ryan typifies that response. You can see him believing he can manipulate Trump or at the very least ignore him. Ryan almost certainly thinks not having a POTUS veto is all he needs, let Drumph make a fool of himself. That's going to be short lived when Drumph makes a blunder that causes the country serious damage. But I digress...

The other GOP legislator reaction comes from all the Trump followers or coat tail riders. They repeat the voter fraud claim in interviews ignoring for the most part that the news media adds the words, no evidence, or false claim whenever it comes up. Could be they are still buying the con, or it might be they also listen to infowars and get the remainder of their news from Fox.

Actually, they are proffesional claqueurs: Trump took 20 people to the CIA: they were the ones giving a standing ovation.
He has done this at any of his rallies, and he is still doing it.

This is very well documented.

Yeah quite possibly. What I mean is that the appearance of popularity and the insistence that Trump is popular and that the people love him is hugely important to his political goals and that is why he spends so much time discussing it.

It is hugely important that he is seen to be popular and thus right. Moreso it's hugely important that he is seen to discredit anyone who suggests he isn't. All dissent is untrue and anti-American and most importantly, anti what the people want.

He's building up the cult. In Trump We Trust. It's insidious. It's nasty. It's scary.

Lindsay Graham is managing to stay out of the clown car. Susan Collins is staying out of it as far as I can tell. She and Bill Cassidy (I don't know his position on Trump) have a health care plan to replace the ACA with, surprise, the ACA.

Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

Kennedy will retire from the foreign service at the end of the month, officials said. The other officials could be given assignments elsewhere in the foreign service.

In addition, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr retired Jan. 20, and the director of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, Lydia Muniz, departed the same day. That amounts to a near-complete housecleaning of all the senior officials that deal with managing the State Department, its overseas posts and its people.

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”

That is truly great news! If Trump could get rid of all leftists in these positions, he would be much further ahead.

Maybe Trump should run the entire US civil service from the oval office.

__________________Freedom you all want, you want freedom. Why then do you haggle over a more or less? Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom. You despair of the possibility of obtaining the whole of freedom, freedom from everything - yes, you consider it insanity even to wish this? - Well, then leave off chasing after the phantom, and spend your pains on something better than the - unattainable. - Max Stirner

Since you have no idea what the left stands for or what liberalism is, you might find yourself in a regime you not only dislike, but one that specifically makes your life a lot less pleasant.

Indeed. It appears he reads "All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations" and immediately thinks "leftists". This does not seem like the normal understanding of what would be left-wing.

Indeed. It appears he reads "All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations" and immediately thinks "leftists". This does not seem like the normal understanding of what would be left-wing.

Lol
Your side is always hiding what they are. Would you like to comment on them quitting their non political job?

They quit because they realize their new boss is nuts! Not a political protest, just, the guy is NUTS!

Given that the report is that they've worked away for years under various regimes and it doesn't seem that a one of them has ever made headlines before, this would not appear to be a political decision.

Also, it's entirely their right not to work for the state if they so choose. Why are some trying to vilify them for exercising their own personal freedom, that would seem particularly unamerican.

__________________Some seem to think the UK leaving the EU is like Robbie leaving Take That.
In reality it's more like Pete leaving The Beatles.

I'm sure it is to the left, hell the SS agent who refused to take a bullet for him would be considered "principled" by the left, but all it does is show which ones need to be fired.

By what imperative do you propose a man should stay in a job he doesn't want to do? Are you not free to work for whom you wish, when you wish under whichever contractual terms you wish?

Why would you deny the same to these people. It's like wanting to own a gun, the why of it is not important. They don't want to work in that position any more, you don't get to judge them for simply exercising their freedom.

__________________Some seem to think the UK leaving the EU is like Robbie leaving Take That.
In reality it's more like Pete leaving The Beatles.